"Hervier Louis Adolphe (1819, 1879) French -the Mill"
Mill.
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:41 x 66 cm, with frame: 57 x 81 cm
Louis Hervier painter, watercolorist and engraver was a delicate landscape painter.
His father, the miniaturist Marc Antoine, a former student of Jean Louis David, taught him his first rudiments then he studied with Léon Cogniet, Descamps and Eugène Isabey.
He is supported and encouraged by Camille Corot.
He borrows his motifs from Beauce, the Ile de France, Picardy and the Midi but it is in Normandy where he regularly visits, that he draws most of his themes, seascapes, rural scenes, groves crossed by a river.
Hervier was able to break away from the present model in favor of his emotion in front of the motif, he asserts himself as an authentic pre-impressionist.
By frank and fair touches, he constructs his landscape which he animates with a beautifully felt light.
Museums: Banners of Bigorre, Blois, Dijon, Dijon, Montpellier, The Hague